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Sony Ericsson W950 Mobile Phone Reviews

The Sony Ericsson W950 is an exciting new addition to the Walkman series of Sony Ericsson. It is a smartphone based on the Symbian 9.1 UIQ 3.0 with a stylish and yet classical design. Although it doesn't feature a camera, the 4GB of free space and the dedicated multimedia keys would make any music lover jump from joy. The large touchscreen TFT display with QVGA resolution is just another fascinating feature for the tech buffs.

W950 seems like the utmost music phone in its pure form. The whopping 4GB of internal memory are enough to store all the tracks you love. The W950 boasts a solid construction and a stylishly designed body made out of matt plastic along with silver lining and orange highlights. Measuring at 106 x 54 x 15 mm, the W950 could be hardly called a compact phone, but as far as smartphones go, it is in fact pretty slim, the probable reason being the absence of a camera

W950 boasts one of the most developed music players. It supports playlists with shuffle and loop options while offering the usual equalizer presets including the Walkman MegaBass. Nice innovations are the several animated background visualizations. The player also offers a sleep timer allowing it to turn off automatically after a user-defined period. One of the coolest things about the player is that you can scroll through your tracks a lot easier using the side Jog Dial. W950 is able to play smoothly videos with VGA resolution, captured at 30 fps, which is more than enough to watch a music video or even a movie. Besides the usual mobile formats such as 3GPP, the smartphone supports MP3, AAC+, MPEG-4 and Real Audio 9 and RealMedia formats.

When it comes to connecting the W950 smartphone, options are many, Besides Infrared and Bluetooth, the W950 has tri-band GSM/UMTS support (GSM 900/1800/1900) and supports GPRS for fast data transfers in non-3G enabled networks. EDGE (the so-called E-GPRS) support lacks here.

To sum up, Sony Ericsson W950 is a great smartphone, a great phone, and a great music player. That is if you don't expect your mobile phone to take pictures and you are not much into messaging. That great display would have put to a good use a Wi-Fi capability but it would have added to the price.